The RA Prosecutor's Office expects that the political parties taking part in the elections, the voters, as well as other subjects involved in the elections will have high civic consciousness and behave lawfully on polling day. To this regard, the RA Prosecutor’s Office wants to remind the following:

 

Each voter participates in the voting only once.

 

Voting more than once or instead of another person is prohibited. Such an action is serious crime and punished with imprisonment for up to five years, and if committed by a group of people with prior consent or by an organized group, is punished with imprisonment for 4-6 years.

 

No one has the right to:

 

• to force, to persuade to inform the result of the voting,
• to check in any way the ballot he filled in,
• to enter the voting booth with the voter without the permission of the electoral commission,
• to violate otherwise the secrecy of the ballot,
• to force the voter to leave the polling station, to show or to provide him/her with a ballot paper to know the results of the voting, including to be sure that the voter has not voted for any party.

Such acts are punished with imprisonment for up to 5 years.

 

It is forbidden to enter the polling station with a weapon.

 

• It is a criminal offense and punished with imprisonment for 1 to 3 years.
• Only those people may enter the polling station with a weapon for whom carrying a weapon at that moment is an official necessity.